How Lovely

[Tilly2]

I bought two Pyracantha bushes from Lidl on Monday. They were reduced to four pounds each. Both of them were smothered in bright yellow berries.
I planted them yesterday in two different areas of the garden and have just spent a delightful hour watching two blackbirds systematically stripping them.

I bought them for the birds and the birds seem to appreciate them. How lovely. I'm really pleased with myself.

[sandyRoe]

May I, on behalf of our featherer friends, say: Well done, Tilly!

[Tilly2]

Heehee!

[ferlew]

You did very well getting them for so little Tilly2. I have four, two with orange berries, and two with the rich yellow, I think I paid £15 ish each for them, mind you they were good big plants.
I put currants on the kitchen windowsill for our blackbirds, they tap the window to ask for them.

[Tilly2]

I was hoping for a flock of waxwings but blackbirds will do nicely.

My plants are about a foot high, ferlew but they have brightened up the garden with the yellow berries. Well, they did yesterday!

[woofgang]

try and hang on to a few berries Tilly, my gold pyracantha has grown from a berry.

[gness]

Morning, Tilly......when the berries have gone do as Ferlew says...currants or sultanas. My daughter puts some on the patio and now one blackbird will tap on the doorstep til she tops up supplies...x

[mallyh]

could you send them to me please (the birds)my neighbours holly tree is dropping red berries all over my garden ,if i don't pick them up the start to grow.

[Tilly2]

I'll need to get out there quickly, woof. They are almost gone. It must take a few years to grow to a reasonable size, I should think but it's worth a try.

Good morning, Gness, and ferlew, thank you, but I have to be careful about using sultanas and currants because of the dogs.

[ferlew]

When we hear the tapping, we just open the window and put a few on the sill, he/she (both come) eat there and then.

[pusskin]

I have a massive red Pyrantha tilly. Tons of red berries, and the sparrows hide and live in there and we always hear lots of chirping.
Just thrown a handfull of saltanas down on patio hoping the birds arrive very soon to gollop them up .

[Tilly2]

I imagine a Pyracantha would keep the sparrowhawk at bay.

[carrust]

I'm the only person on AB allowed to have waxwings in my garden:-)

[pusskin]

Tilly, we have the sparrow hawk zoom into my garden now and again.
Oh boy, that bird is so fast, manages to grab a sparrow normally, even though the sparrows dive for cover into the big bush for safety.
The sparrowhawk dives in the bush and has trouble getting out again as we have mesh running along the bottom of our garden and he gets trapped.

[Tilly2]

I love seeing the sparrowhawks zooming about but I don't like it when they choose my garden in which to eat their food.

Pusskin, do you have to go and release your sparrowhawk when It gets trapped?

[pusskin]

Hi Tilly, yes, we always make sure that the sparrow hawk gets away, as we'd be upset to think he is really trapped.

Hawks are lovely birds but we dont want them in our garden thats for sure.

[Tilly2]

I'm glad to hear that, pusskin.

[pusskin]

Tilly, he doesnt actually get trapped. Just leaves the garden the opposite way that he gets in. The mesh cannot be removed as it stops the 3 cats from next door just strolling in our garden.

[Tilly2]

It's a shame sparrowhawks don't eat cats.


runs away!

[tonyav]

Oi ^^^^^

[Tilly2]

I know I didn't mean it, honestly.